Northern Christian members of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), have declared support for Peter Obi, Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP). A statement signed by Babachir Lawal, a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), said the APC’s same-faith ticket is a deliberate and calculated plan to sow seeds of religious…
The Court of Appeal sitting in Yola, Adamawa state, has set aside the ruling of high courts nullifying the primary elections that produced Emmanuel Bwacha of Taraba state and Aishatu Binani of Adamawa state as governorship candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the two states. The court on Thursday ordered that their names…
President Muhammadu Buhari has unveiled the redesigned naira notes on Wednesday in Abuja. The redesigned notes are N1000, N500 and N200 denominations. In attendance at the event was the governorof the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Boss Mustapha, Chief of Staff to the President, Ibrahim Gambari…
The Kaduna state chapter of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) and its governorship candidate, Senator Suleiman Hunkuyi, have vowed to appeal against the decision of a Federal High Court, in a suit against the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), which sought to stop the inclusion of all candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC)…
By Sylvanus Tyoakaa, Abuja The ad-hoc committee set up last week by the senate to investigation the disbursement of development fund to the 36 states of the federation since 2017, has summoned the finance minister, Zainab Ahmed, Central Bank governor, Godwin Emefiele and others to appear before it . The senate had in a motion…
President Muhammadu Buhari, will on Wednesday unveiled the redesigned naira notes. The governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Godwin Emefiele, disclosed this on Tuesday during the monthly meeting of the Monetary Policy Committee, in Abuja. Emefiele said, the CBN would not extend the January 31, 2023 deadline for old notes to be deposited to…
